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Proprietor and Founder of Vivian Fowler Memorial College for Girls, Oregun, Lagos, Mrs. Leila Fowler, has reiterated the commitment of the college to ensure proper education of the girl-child to enable them attain the desired position in the society. This was as she noted that there was need for concerted efforts to train, nurture and develop the required capabilities and competences for the girl-child.
While underscoring the importance of girl-child in the development of the society, the educationist noted that it had become imperative to focus on the girl-child with a view to providing them qualitative education, while also imparting moral values into them. She added that since inception of the college, it has remained focus in improving the lives of the girl-child morally and academically.
Mrs. Fowler said: “There is the urgent need to nurture young girls to grow, live and function as unique and respectable adults, wives, mothers and professionals of tomorrow.
The school has not only been focusing on academics, but also on moral, leadership and home management training.” The Founder, who spoke during the 2016 graduation ceremony of the college, however, said that the school places high premium on guidance and counseling given the sensitive nature of the girls as they plough through the adventurous world of adolescence into adulthood.
The girls-only school, according to her, engages professional counselors to speak to the students in order to achieve well-balanced moral and academic growth. The students, she added, are encouraged to participate actively in various extracurricular activities which prepare them for leadership roles in the society, even as Mrs. Fowler explained that the college’s mission is focused on offering the girl-child qualitative and functional secondary school education.
“The mission also inculcates in the girl-child the pursuit of excellence as it brings out the best in the girl-child as shown in the students’ academic performance,” she stressed. In her words of exhortation, the Provost of College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Prof. Folashade Ogunshola advised the graduating students “to dare to be great, dare to be different and dare to overcome the challenges of life.”
